Cleverbird

Shadowrun Down Under: Fantasy/Sci-fi

Rubbing the bridge of her nose, Steph paced back and forth anxiously. Everything about this just screamed "Set-up!" Her father may have been a despicable person for what he did, but his advice to never, ever get involved with SK was one of the few things he was right about. Not to mention, that despite what everybody else was feeling; Steph was not happy with the reveal of Voice's secret. After all, SK didn't want her back, that meant there had to be something wrong with her, right? A sleeper agent perhaps? Or maybe more interesting, there was something inside that facility worth more than an AI...

Letting out a deep sigh, Steph glared at Joe. A glare he was all too familiar with by this point. The 'we're done' glare. Stepping back up to the planning table, she spoke to Tallulah in their elven tongue. "Don't you call me a traitor, since I seem to be the only one looking out for our team." Before switching back to common. "We dont know what SK did with Voice's AI. None of you are skilled enough to poke around in her head... So if she turns on us, know that I'll be the one shouting 'told you so' when she blasts a hole in the back of your skull."

Pausing for a second, she returned to the plan. "Might I suggest we take a different approach? We have no guarantee that the transport will stop when taking fire... If anything, this would probably scare them off. Cause a road block, something to force them to slow down. A fallen tree or what have you... Be creative. Hell, use the EMP if need be. Shouldn't be too hard given the storm. Overpower the driver and guards. I can get us some holowear and an RFID spoofer to allow us to impersonate the drivers. Team 1 can then sneak into the back of the truck and we'll just drive in through the front gates." She looked back up at Vanessa. "Do we even know what we're supposed to do when we're inside? Extract a VIP? Download data? I can't imagine SK just wanting us to break down the door..."

Cʟᴀss Dɪsᴍɪssᴇᴅ

Ooh perfect, I'll just call it "method acting" and start stalking Cappy!

Cʟᴀss Dɪsᴍɪssᴇᴅ

Is there a way to follow people? Because I swear, every RP that catches my interest has you in it Cappy.

I'd like to claim the shy stalker if possible.

Post a random fact about yourself.

Fun fact: my body contains enough bones to form one whole skeleton!

Underrated and Overrated Video Games

Holt shit, so many good memories of SWAT 4! It was pretty much the only tactical game I ever "mastered" as a kid. Never had the patience for games like Rainbow Six or Ghost Recon (before they started following the shooty-shooty-bang-bang action trend). Wasn't SWAT 4 also the game that let you take over the snipers?

Make a wish, corrupt a wish.

Granted, but now you make all the worst decisions.

I wish for world peace.

Make a wish, corrupt a wish.

Granted, but this new food group is now considered toxic and becomes actively banned by the government.

I wish I had a quantum computer.

Shadowrun Down Under: Fantasy/Sci-fi

Steph looked back and forth between Vanessa and Voice, expecting some kind of punchline to follow this obvious joke. AI? Was this supposed to be real? Self sufficient AI were myth at this point, part of those terrible sci-fi trideo! She had always considered Voice a little peculiar, but what Decker wasnt? Spend too much time in the Matrix and it was sure to leave some effect... But Voice practically was from the Matrix.

"You knew?" She hissed at Vanessa. "All this time? You had us working alongside a... a... Machine? T'es rien qu'un petit connard!" She scoffed, glaring over Voice with visible disgust. "A Saeder-Krupp machine on top of that? You're telling me the goddamn largest corporation knew about this the entire time?" Steph exclaimed, throwing her hands up in anger.

"Non, non, non, non... I'm out! J'en ai ral le cul... I'm not going to risk my life for a goddamn toaster, or a dragon for that matter!" The fact the team seemed to be so nonchalant about all of this was perhaps even more infuriating. If Voice was truly telling the truth, then this could be news that would shake the entire goddamn world. Fuck, the fact Saeder-Krupp themselves were getting involved, instead of one of their million subsidiaries, meant this was huge. "Here's a much better idea, why not sell her off to SK? Or hell, Aztechnology, I'm sure they'd love to get their hands on a SK created AI! The bounty for that would probably be enough for each of us to never have to work a day in our lives!"

"How do we even know this isn't some setup by SK? Putain! What if she's programmed to kill us? She said so herself, they were working on making her a goddamn killing machine!" Steph had already been burned by betrayal once, she wasn't about to get burned twice. She turned back towards Vanessa, leaning in close over the desk. "Unless you can give me a damn good reason why I should even consider going along with this suicide pact just to save your walking toaster, I'm out of here." She hissed. "And dont try and guilt trip me into coming along for some emotional bullshit... That all burned away the second I found out you've been lying to us about the toaster for years now."

Shadowrun Down Under: Fantasy/Sci-fi

Steph was the last one to enter the dingy little office, clutching various shopping bags filled with a small fortune of clothes. The elf looked more like a starlet than a runner, with her long white coat as well as fashionably large sunglasses. "Salut mes amis, comment allez-vous?" She cooed excitedly. "What's the emergency?"

Joining the rest of the crew, making sure to give the oversized Fenrir a loving scratch behind her ears - Steph was probably the only person in the group that had this privilege - and went over what little information Vanessa had to offer. The sunny disposition quickly evaporated as more and more details became known.

"Vanessa... Is this a joke?" Steph looked up at the Fixer, lifting the sunglasses, throwing the files back onto the table. So far Vanessa had been a trustworthy Fixer, always supplying their team with trustworthy jobs. This seemed anything but. A job like this needed way more time, time to scope out the facility, threat assessment, hell they needed time to check out drivers coming in and out of the facility to check for holes in the security.

"You know damn well that a job like this needs more time... Merde, you dont even know what we're up against?" Steph scoffed, crossing her arms. "This isnt like you... You'd never accept a job like this. So what's the deal here? I'm not going to risk my life by being left in the dark."

"And could we leave killing off the table until we know what we're even dealing with?" She snapped at the rest of the team.

Shadowrun Down Under: Fantasy/Sci-fi

Fashion

𝒮𝓉𝑒́𝓅𝒽𝒶𝓃𝒾𝑒 𝐵𝑒𝒶𝓊𝓋𝑒𝓇𝑔𝑒𝓇

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Color code: #92278f

Street name: Fashion

Race: Elf

Age: 89

Gender: Female

Appearance:
Stéphanie is what one would call a stereotypical elf. Standing just slightly taller than an average human at 5'8", she has a graceful face; framed by luscious straw blonde hair, which she takes great pride in. Her soft green eyes are playful in nature while her more angular face exhumes an air of authority.

You'll always find Stéphanie wearing whatever is in fashion, no matter the costs.

Archetype: Face/Infiltrator

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Equipment

Fichetti Tiffani Needler

(Holdout pistol)
"Designed to appeal to social climbers and debutantes, the Tiffani Needler is available in a wide variety of colors and styles. It also has a special color-changing coating that can be manipulated via wireless signal. This is useful to make sure your gun matches with your shoes or your handbag. The Needler can only fire flechette rounds." - Fichetti Tiffani website
Magazine hold: 4
Caliber: 9mm

KA-BAR Combat knife
A long, KA-BAR-style fighting knife with a blacked-out blade and a chisel point for punching through armor.

Chameleon Suit

This full-body suit has a smart ruthenium polymer coating supported by a sensor suite; the technology allows it to scan its surroundings and replicate the images at the proper perspectives, effectively hiding the user behind a holographic cloak.

Executive Suite

The line's name pretty much says it all. These suits are usually found on the ultra-secure upper floors of megacorporate headquarters. They're slick and smooth, and outside of the improvements they’ve had added from Zoé's armor tech advancements, they haven't changed much in the past decade.

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Cybernetics and Bioware

Cyberware
Datajack

Bioware
Tailored Pheromones
These pheromones are specially tailored to subtly influence others and can be released at will. Tailored pheromones only work when the person you’re using them on is within a comfortable conversation range-if they can't smell you, the pheromones don't work. Tailored pheromones also work on the user to make them feel better about themselves. Tailored pheromones have no effect on magical abilities or mechanical units.

Enhanced Articulation
A number of procedures like joint-surface coating, re-lubrication, and tendon and ligament augmentation lead to more fluid muscle and joint action.

Misc. equipment
Lockpick Set
Miniwelder
Mini-crowbar and chisel
RFID Tag Eraser
Data Tap
Bug Scanner

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Abilities, spells, etc.:

Facial Sculpt
This power allows an adept to change his appearance by shifting the muscles, bone structure, and cartilage in his face.

Common changes include altering ear shape, changing nose shape, raising/lowering cheekbones, growing tusks, reshaping the forehead, lengthening/shortening facial hair, and so on. Adepts can even change their face to another metatype if they wish, but they can’t change their body shape. The time required to change one feature is approximately one minute. Multiple features can be changed simultaneously. The adept needs another full minute to undo the changes and return their features to normal.

Enthralling Performance
The power permeates the adept’s performance with a subtle magic aura, mesmerizing observers with the adept’s grace or skill as the performance unfolds. Audience members exposed to sudden outside stress or stimuli, such as hearing gunshot or suffering an assault, are immediately released from the entrancement.

Commanding Voice
Adepts with this power have a knack for convincing people to believe them or do things for them in certain situations. If the adept succeeds, then the target(s) will agree to or follow the adept’s next suggestion or command, within reason and depending on the situation. A subject won’t normally harm himself for example, but he may be persuaded that the pretty-boy elf over there was making moves on his girl/guy and that punching said elf is a good idea. Or an adept may convince a corporate secretary to give up some dirt on her boss.

Unique skill: Allure - A more potent version of Commanding Voice; using her bewitching charm, the target becomes utterly infatuated with Stéphanie and would do anything to try and please her. This includes more extreme commands, such as killing off colleagues.

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Personality:
Narcissistic, playful and obsessed with the higher lifestyle. Stéphanie absolutely detests violence of any sorts, always trying to resolve conflict through either diplomacy or if that fails, blackmail.

While not openly racist, she does think Elves are superior to the other races; with especially Trolls and Orcs being beneath her. Respect is earned, not given... And earning an elf's respect is certainly no easy task.

Bio:
In a previous life, Stéphanie was a privileged corporate brat, benefiting greatly from her ruthless father's position in one of sole remaining Renraku offices left in Paris after the Renraku moved their European headquarters to Munich. While their Renraku presence in Paris was merely for show, it was still a highly prestigious position to be in. All of that came to a screeching halt when daddy dear decided to teach his daughter a hard life lesson in responsibility by hiring a team of Shadowrunners to fake her kidnapping and ransom.

This did not quite have the humbling effect her father had hoped for. Angry and betrayed, Stéphanie announced that she had no intentions of returning to her cushy ivory tower. Stricken by one of the runners - a handsome elf named Dekker, who operated as the team's Face - Stéphanie took to the runner lifestyle like a Drake to water.

Fleeing with the 'Runners from Paris, Stéphanie formed a strong bond with Dekker (resulting in a tumultuous "on again, off again" relationship); picking up some of the former's impressive skills along the way.

Parting amicably, Stéphanie eventually returned home where she formed her own team of 'Runners. Their most impressive job? Robbing her own father's office of every penny it had...

Hunted by her father, Stéphanie fled to the furthest point she knew from Paris... Australia, hoping to establish a new life there.